Reverse: A galley with two standards, one helmsman, four rowers, and Trito...
Obverse: Bust of Commodus
| Collection: | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
| Context: | Cyzicus |
| Material: | Bronze |
| Denomination: | Medallion |
| Issuing Authority: | Commodus |
| Actual Weight: | 26.11 g. |
| Die Axis: | 11 |
| Date: | exact 166 AD - exact 177 AD |
| Dimensions: | 37.5 mm. |
| Region: | Mysia |
| Period: | Antonine |
Obverse Type: Within a dotted circle a galley moving to the right through the seas, with two standards on the stern, a helmsman, four rowers, Triton on the prow, and a fish and a dolphin below.
Donor: Theodora Wilbour Fund in Memory of Zoë Wilbour
Commentary: Imperial bronze medallion
Sources Used: Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Deutschland, Sammlung von Aulock, no. 1266